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I can only suggest that you put everything back the way if was and then re-read that Codex section to try and figure out which step you missed or misunderstood.

Thank you Esmi for answering.

I put everything as it was.

wordpress: /home
url: /home

And it’s no showing the site anymore, not even in the original directory (I erase the cache) I still have access to my dashboard

I tried the ” Changing the Site URL ” with wp-config and Function method (both site url and home pointing to the original directory /home) but still not working

I checked if everything is ok in the wp-options Database, it is: both home and url are mateocarregno.com/home (where the WP is installed)

It loads the Favicon logo and I know that it is the theme backgorund but nothing else is showing. (apparently it is a 403 forbidden page)

Don’t know what else to try.

What is in your root and home .htaccess files?

Since I take it back as the beginning in the subdirectory /home I erase the index.php and .htaccess from the root – So there is nothing.

Thanks for your help

I get the content back replacing with new WordPress files but content file and wp-config the old one.

I am still not able to de the Using a pre-existing subdirectory install – I have tried several times following step by step. don’t know what else to do.

Thank you for your attention

SOLUTION

After trying and reading a lot I find out a solution by accident…. I try to use a solution posted HERE making a modification to the .htaccess file on the root. It was a tutorial by dwdallam member. Follow the link to check it right without any modification.

Then I change the site url in Settings -> General (home was showing other pages and post don’t) so I COPY the index.php file in root (still with the problem) So I updated the permalinks…. (still with the problem) I went to check the .htaccess root file and it had the regular code at the end in which I had the subdirectory where the wordpress is installed…. (I don’t know If I forgot to erase it when I was coping the tutorial or it added by itself when I updated the permalinks)

My Final .htaccess looks like (replace for your own web site address and subdirectory)

# Change ‘YOURWEBSITE.COM’ to be your main domain.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?YOURWEBSITE.COM$

# Change ‘YOURSUBDIRECTORY’ to be the directory you will use for your main domain.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/YOURSUBDIRECTORY/

# Don’t change these line.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Change ‘WP’ to be the directory you will use for your main domain.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /YOURSUBDIRECTORY/$1

# Change ‘YOURWEBSITE.COM’ to be your main domain again.
# Change ‘YOURSUBDIRECTORY’ to be the directory you will use for your main domain
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?YOURWEBSITE.COM$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ YOURSUBDIRECTORY/index.php [L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /YOURSUBDIRECTORY/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /YOURSUBDIRECTORY/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

now is working perfectly… Thanks for your help and I post the solution in case anyone has the same problem.